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nindi_18

Favorite foods: traditional indonesian sweets and desserts, anything with palm sugar, small bites, and plates that can be shared :)

Last bite on earth: martabak manis, an indonesian dessert with chocolate,cheese, peanuts, condensed milk, sesame and butter. saying that it's sorta like a square, super thick pancake would do it injustice.

This is also a breakfast staple in Indonesia! Sometimes this would be in my lunchbox too. It was only when I was grown up did I realize chocolate and sugar with bread for breakfast might not be the best for children. Mostly all moms will give you this for breakfast without a second thought. Other options would be bread with nutella, or bread with butter and white sugar o_o

if i serve myself, i always finish what i have in my plate. If I go out though, its a problem because I almost always can never finish my food, the portions are always too big! People will say that I'm dieting or something, but I truly am not! I don't like wasting food so I feel bad not finishing, but at the same time I just cannot eat more when I am full. I also feel bad when someone else is paying, because I don't want to seem ungrateful :(
Going to dinner when someone cooks is also a problem sometimes because they can serve a lot of food, and I don't think it is very polite not to finish the plate...but telling them not to serve too much also doesn't seem very nice! I still don't know what's the etiquette for these situations..

I use to really really hate condiments. If a fry touched just a drop of ketchup I won't eat it because it grosses me out. Same for sandwich spreads, mayo, and thousand island sauce. I'm 25 now, and have been living in holland for the past two years, and have just grown to like dipping fries in mayo. But just a tiny bit. Still hate all the others I mentioned though, especially ketchup!

We Indonesians call it terasi, and up until now I still cant stand the stink! Whenever someone in my home makes 'sambal terasi', I lock myself up inside my room cos the smell permeates everywhere in the house!

I learned a quick way to make puddings set is to dip the mold complete with the pudding in it in a water bath fillled with ice. Sets up in no time! Magic.
I also learned that sewing embroideries on a tea towel on your lap is not a good idea, especially when you are about to hand in your work and it turns out you have sewn it together with the skirt you are wearing.

I hate hate hate pizza-flavored food! Chips, crackers, it all has this weird smell that permeates the whole room if you open the package. I also hate breads that are supposedly pizza flavored..you know, those fluffy breads that are topped with tomato sauce and cheese and some kind of meat...Asian and Dutch bakeries especially loves those, and I hate it when someone in the bus eats one because everyone can smell!

hmmmm it kinda bothers me that the dishes mentioned in this section called "seriously malaysian" is usually of indonesian origin. But I guess it is difficult to tell which country's version came first.

i usually a real meal around 7, then snack on something at 9 or 10..but I have been studying abroad (im indonesian studying in the netherlands) and am friends with a lot of greeks, who eats dinner at 9 or 10,so now I eat dinner really late too! I eat at 9.30 or 10. Lunch is either at 4 or 5.

@therealchiffonade yes i was just about to make this same comment! I dont mind animal shaped food, but i dont like it when my food stares at me! like fish served still with the head! creeps me out. although i will still eat it :)

well im not sure if this counts as cooking, but i learned how to bake from blogs and baking websites. Seriously, everything from learning how to cream butter and sugar, whisking flour, etc. I went from making rock hard cupcakes to a pretty good baker (proven by my friends and families requests to bake all the time)!!

I live in the netherlands, and we have dr. oetker products dominating the fridge section. that said, i've tried one of these, and it tasted like ass! it was bland, oily, and the cheese tasted rubbery. i dunno. maybe they dont have quality control or something cause i could not imagine anyone trying this and saying it was okay, let alone delicious.

Hi all!!
Me and my friend are going to Pisa, Italy, for 3 nights in two weeks. Please share your eating experience, and your recommendations on what and where to eat! We will probably go to nearby towns like florence and genova too if we have the time, thanks!!

I am going to go to prague for 3 days. Since it's my first time there, anyone has any suggestions on where to eat?? I would like to eat authentic czech food, as well as their dessert like medovnik, and since i'm only going for a short amount of time (and stomach space!) I would like every meal to be worth it :D

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